Infrastructure News

Donald Kaberuka, African Development Bank (AfDB) group president, is set to commence his second five-year mandate and according to the organisation, has had a transformative effect on its infrastructure operations.

African governments have been advised by the World Bank that improvements in the quality of their infrastructure - such as roads - will help them become more competitive in trade, as demonstrated by countries such as China.

On Thursday 26 August, at a meeting of the Council of Minister, the Angolan government approved a number of projects for the upgrading and construction of infrastructures in the energy sector, as revealed by the Angola Press...

Zimbabwe telephone operators Econet Wireless announced last week that they had obtained a loan of 60 million Dollars from Swedish credit agency EKN, in order to finance the expansion of their network across the territory.

A project involving the modernisation and rehabilitation of the agricultural irrigation network of the plains of Hebra and the Province of Mascara in Algeria will be set in place in 2011, the daily Tribune has learned from a...